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The European Climate Pact - a movement to build a greener Europe

The European Climate Pact is an initiative of the European Commission supporting the implementation of the European Green Deal. It is a movement to build a greener Europe, providing a platform to work and learn together, develop solutions, and achieve real change.

The Pact provides opportunities for people, communities, and organizations to participate in climate and environmental action across Europe. By pledging to the Pact, European stakeholders commit to taking concrete climate and environmental actions in a way that can be measured and/or followed up. Participating in the Pact is an opportunity for organizations to share their transition journey with their peers and collaborate with other actors towards common targets.

CDP Europe is one of the partners operating the Pact Secretariat, providing strategic design, supporting operations, and building an EU-wide understanding about climate change while encouraging citizens and organizations to pledge to concrete climate and environmental actions.

CDP & the Pact How to join?

Why pledge via CDP? What happens next? What else is there?

CDP disclosure allows organizations to fully track progress against their sustainability strategy.

It showcases their existing commitments as European Climate Pact pledges without extra steps.

This is an opportunity to publicise your organization’s leadership, commitments, and targets, support a pan-European climate movement, and inspire others.

The Pact team at CDP will process your response and identify the concrete climate and environmental actions your organization is reporting on.

Some of these actions will be recognised as pledges and published on the official Pact website.

The pledging process does not affect your scoring.

Once you join the European Climate Pact community, CDP Europe will make sure to inform you of any relevant engagement and visibility opportunities within the Pact universe and beyond.

You will also be able to include additional information to your organization’s profile on the Pact website.

You can apply as well to be a Pact ambassador or make joint pledges with other actors.

For companies For cities For states and regions

From 2022, you will have an opportunity to automatically join the European Climate Pact.

You will also be able to synchronize your pledges’ reporting with your CDP disclosure.

In the submission page of the CDP ORS, you can now find a radio button for you to confirm your consent to join the movement to build a greener Europe.

CDP cities can have their data translated into Pact pledges with no additional steps should they choose to opt-in.

This can be done directly through CDP’s disclosure dashboard, under “partner initiatives”. The identified pledges will be recognised and published on the official Pact website.

For more information on which data points can be converted into pledges please access our guidance document here.

States and Regions can agree to have their data translated into Pact pledges by indicating it in the submission page of the questionnaire in the Online Reporting System (ORS).

The relevant submission question can be found under “The European Climate Pact Submission”.

For more information on which data points can be converted into pledges please access our guidance document here.

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CDP disclosing organizations have pledged

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Pledges have been reported through CDP disclosure

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Spotlight: news and updates from the European Climate Pact

Thousands of people and organisations joined the European Climate Pact in 2021

In the last weeks of 2021, the Belgian region of Flanders signed up to the Pact – adding to more than 1,600 pledges already made by organisations and communities across Europe.

Who they are and what they have pledged to do

CDP Europe joins partnership delivering European Climate Pact

The newly formed partnership, named “Promitto” (or “I pledge” in Latin), includes CDP Europe, Denkstatt, Friends of Europe, ICF, Ifok, IASS, LOW, Presencing Institute and Ramboll. The aim is to help mobilize and support a social movement of millions of people across the EU to get involved in the green transition, inspire each other, and develop and scale up solutions.

Delivering the European Climate Pact

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Events

CDP Europe Awards 2022

Join the CDP Europe Awards 2022: Now For Nature, produced in partnership with Euronews TV, as CDP interviews the United Nations Executive Secretaries for climate and nature, the EU’s Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans, top EU policymakers, corporate CEOs, finance leaders, scientists, economists and city mayors on the urgent steps needed to achieve a net-zero emissions, nature-positive economy. The online event is free to join virtually, and open to all with registration.

Now For Nature

All Climate Pact satellite events

Reflecting the wealth and diversity of climate action in Europe, the Commission is inviting individuals, businesses or civil society organisations to organise Climate Pact satellite events following the launch event. These events will allow for discussions in various languages in order to reach out to local communities, focus on specific topics or highlight the role of particular groups or sectors in the Climate Pact.

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